Quotes About Story

Working on 'Beyond,' I try to give an explanation to death that's different from the explanation religions have to give. So I made up my own story around all this and how life and death and souls work.

'The Seasons' program that really is part of our souls, it tells the story of our relationship of Tessa and Scott and it's a lot of fun for our longtime fans and hopefully for our new fans.

More people need to understand the games secular liberals play. Here's one rule-of-thumb: No matter how bad a story sounds - particularly if it sounds bad - recognize the pattern of defamation.

An adventure game is nothing more than a good story set with engaging puzzles that fit seamlessly in with the story and the characters, and looks and sounds beautiful.

To me the most important thing is a good story, though I know how cliche that sounds.

I am heartbroken that this movie would cause anyone pain. It should be a source of joy. The story is a metaphor about how we try to stay in our own little bubbles, we don't let life in, we don't take the journey.

When I was in South Africa, I went for dinner with some friends, and I knew more about their history than they did - it just hasn't been told.

Food is a way to explore culture and ground the story in a specific time and place. I still remember the meals and snacks from my first novel, 'Shug': pork chops and applesauce and Coca-Cola and peanuts, which are very Southern. When a character has roots elsewhere, food is a way to connect with home and another culture.

If one wants to talk about the end of the world, the apocalypse, you're talking about the world itself. It's not Southern California breaking into the sea. The story is global, and it requires that kind of approach.

There is an interesting parallel between the 'Argo' story and '13 Hours' in that, around the world, we have 285 or so diplomatic outposts and the expectation that the local government will come to our aid if we ever come under attack on the sovereign property of the United States in an embassy.

What compelled me about the story of Chernobyl more than anything else was something very universal. Yes, Chernobyl happened because in many ways, the Soviet system was deeply corrupt and evil, but the Soviet system did not arrive to us from some other planet. It was devised by humans.

I believe that my experience as an HBO executive responsible for global marketing and communications should serve our country well as we tell America's story in Spain and Andorra.

Love is infinite. Grief can lead to love. Love can lead to grief. Grief is a love story told backward just as love is a grief story told backward.

For there has never been a story nearly as tragic as the one of Frankenstein, except for that of Johnny Heart and his Francesca Valentine.

We always fall in love with a story, not a name or a body but what is inscribed in the man.

Anxiety is a sign that you have made up a story contrary to reality. Love does not fear.

It is perhaps necessary for something dear to be lost.""Why?""Perhaps it is necessary to the making of a story. A story after all is a way of remembering love.

I know the resolution. I know the end of the story before it ever begins. I must choose love. And for this, I will surely die.

when the night turns into morningI want during the day, tell my story when evening twilight passed

The movie I was working on, "Cleopatra", it's about how destructive a force love can be. But maybe that's what every story is about.

I look a girl in the eye and it was a very long love story with thunder and kisses and lightning. I live fast.

In the war room, love? What if someone comes in?"I stood and removed his shirt. "Then they'll have a good story to tell.""Good?" He adopted the pretense of being offended."Prove me wrong.

You're the best bad decision I ever made, and you are, by far, my favorite story to tell.

He stirred my soul in the most subtle way and the story between us wrote itself.